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So I've been offline and solo travelling through Japan for the last month! 🇯🇵♥️ It's been the most rewarding, kind, bliss, stuffed, moving, enlightening, touching and fulfilling journey. ✨ So grateful for all the people I met, all their stories and thoughts on life and the energy they gave me. You know who you are. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Being offline made me more focused on everything going on! Really happy I made that decision, to focus on the expierence and share it only after a couple of weeks. 💮 I made SO many pictures & video's to remember everything and share all the experiences: so I did a little tv show on my insta stories. ♥️⛩♥️ 10 magical moments are in this slide: 1. The most zen room in #HoshinoyaKyoto, I actually saw wild 🦌, fishes and a heron at the other side of the river! Much needed zen for a night. 🌿 2. My trip to #Jigokudani, a valley with hot stream and volcanic gases coming out from its ground. Pure earth magic in #Hokkaido, Japans northernmost island.🌪 3. I decided to jump on a local bus and just jump of when I saw a tea plantation to look at it from up close. This local farmer, Yuji Sugimoto, invited me in to come taste his fresh picked Sencha and showed me around his farm. He didn't speak English and I don't speak Japanse, but we connected through taste and gestures. I'm forever grateful for his kindness. 🍵 4. Seeing #MountFuji was even more rewarding than I thought! Not only because of this amazing bedroom view at #HoshinoyaFuji@hoshinoresorts.official or the glamping experience (I could do that everyday). But because it's even bigger than I imagined it to be! Also, it's not a painting, this was the actual view when I entered my room. The emoji is nothing compared to the real deal. Nothing. 🗻 5. The food everywhere (éverywhere) all day and night. I'm trying everything I can see and enjoy the Japanese kitchen so much. It's so pure and endlessss! Also in this picture: my @ospreyeurope bag that everyone on Twitter recommended. You guys are gold, it's the best backpack, even when walking for hoursssss. ⚡️ 6. I was in the very intense and big #Tokyo for two weeks. I tried to find 'zen' places, and this one won. --> story continues in my comment ⤵️

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A macaque being groomed at the Jigokudani snow monkey park in the Nagano Prefecture in Japan, March 4, 2016.

The Jigokudani snow monkey park has become a major tourist hot spot, attracting visitors from all over the world hoping to get a glimpse of these amazing creatures huddled together in hot springs. But because of the warmer than usual weather during this time, the macaques were frequently found lazing about on some nearby rocks instead of spending much of their time keeping warm in hot springs. #wildlife#nature#poyi#picturesoftheyear#macaque#japan#jigokudani#grooming#animals